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Treason and Congress letter to Iran - No one undermines the US like the Republicans
By Ramyrez 2015-03-11 11:25:54
If Obama has 47 republican senators arrested, forgot what they did for a moment, and realize the shitstorm that will cause though.
In theory I enjoy the idea of the pandemonium that would cause.
In practice, I'd prefer to keep the boat unrocked.
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By Ramyrez 2015-03-11 11:27:50
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Hey, they're the ones that broke federal laws. I know if I broke a federal law, I'd be in cuffs quicker than you could say "jackrabbit".
There are all kinds of things you would be arrested for that senators get away with.
Ted Kennedy killed a woman, ffs.
*** Cheney shot his friend in the *** face.
(This post primarily a means to use that picture; I love that collage.)
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By Asura.Alexandero 2015-03-11 11:29:43
No one is going to jail. And Blood, what you said is just disappointing. So, we should make decisions based on what people might do, not based on what the right thing to do is? Whether they have cooperated in the past, and whether they cooperate in the future doesn't mean that we should just throw all cooperation to the wind and say, "Every man for himself". You essentially stated, since they haven't cooperated before, we should no longer attempt to work with them. This kind of thinking is what got us to where we are now, where no one works with anyone. I expected that from Candle the Communist (since we are name calling now), not really from you though.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-11 11:32:35
First few minutes, lmao.
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By Lye 2015-03-11 11:32:35
This is the United States of America!
You don't need to be a congressman to get away with murder!
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By Ramyrez 2015-03-11 11:33:53
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »So, if I were a congressman, I can get away with murder? Is that what you're saying?
I mean, I'm not saying you can get away with murder, but I'm saying you can get away with some pretty "inconvenient accidents".
I mean, there's even precident for politicians killing each other.
By Ramyrez 2015-03-11 11:34:26
You don't need to be a congressman to get away with murder!
You just need to be a politician or have enough money to buy one.
By Ramyrez 2015-03-11 11:35:12
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Nope, the 47 more than likely will. There's already enough support to arrest all of them and prosecute them in a federal court for sending that letter.
Let's keep the partisan revenge fantasies in check.
That's not happening.
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By Bloodrose 2015-03-11 11:36:17
No one is going to jail. And Blood, what you said is just disappointing. So, we should make decisions based on what people might do, not based on what the right thing to do is? Whether they have cooperated in the past, and whether they cooperate in the future doesn't mean that we should just throw all cooperation to the wind and say, "Every man for himself". You essentially stated, since they haven't cooperated before, we should no longer attempt to work with them. This kind of thinking is what got us to where we are now, where no one works with anyone. I expected that from Candle the Communist (since we are name calling now), not really from you though. You've taken something I said, and completely twisted it around. If the argument is that we should make decisions on what the right thing to do is, why is it that the GOP is fervently against any kind of progression that doesn't come from their camp? Why are they doing everything in their power to stifle anything good to come out of the Democratic camp, instead of balance, and interjecting their ideas, or discussing positive changes that can appease the greatest amount of politicians *and* citizens?
Also, that isn't the essence of my argument - the essence is to bring notice to the hypocrisy that the right wingers are claiming the very thing on the Dems that they themselves are guilty of.
Again, I did clarify and even agree that both sides should be working in tandem with each other on a great many things in a previous post, so while you are accusing another of putting words into your mouth, it would benefit you to not do the same in a following post as well.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-11 11:37:36
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Nope, the 47 more than likely will. There's already enough support to arrest all of them and prosecute them in a federal court for sending that letter. Pure Bolshevism fantasy.
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By Asura.Alexandero 2015-03-11 11:37:56
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Hey, they're the ones that broke federal laws. I know if I broke a federal law, I'd be in cuffs quicker than you could say "jackrabbit".
There are all kinds of things you would be arrested for that senators get away with.
Ted Kennedy killed a woman, ffs.
*** Cheney [i ]shot his friend in the *** face.[/i] "It was a hunting accident!"
Sure, Dicky. An accident that still occurred when both had taken proper safety precautions. So, if I were a congressman, I can get away with murder? Is that what you're saying? There's a long list of people I'd love to kill without repercussions in a court of law. What are you even arguing here? First you imply that it wasn't an accident, the same thing that Ramy just said, and then you attack Ramy, after you just agreed with what he said?
Lol, you literally, agreed with his premise (it wasn't an accident and he got away with it), and then disputed the same premise that you first agreed with ("So i I were a congressman, I can get away with murder? Is that what you're saying"?).
Do you troll yourself when you're alone? Seriously, Im curious.
By Bloodrose 2015-03-11 11:40:27
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Hey, they're the ones that broke federal laws. I know if I broke a federal law, I'd be in cuffs quicker than you could say "jackrabbit".
There are all kinds of things you would be arrested for that senators get away with.
Ted Kennedy killed a woman, ffs.
*** Cheney [i ]shot his friend in the *** face.[/i] "It was a hunting accident!"
Sure, Dicky. An accident that still occurred when both had taken proper safety precautions. So, if I were a congressman, I can get away with murder? Is that what you're saying? There's a long list of people I'd love to kill without repercussions in a court of law. What are you even arguing here? First you imply that it wasn't an accident, the same thing that Ramy just said, and then you attack Ramy, after you just agreed with what he said?
Lol, you literally, agreed with his premise (it wasn't an accident and he got away with it), and then disputed the same premise that you first agreed with ("So i I were a congressman, I can get away with murder? Is that what you're saying"?).
Do you troll yourself when you're alone? Seriously, Im curious. I think we all are.
Then we realize, it's the internet, and everyone trolls themselves when they are alone.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2015-03-11 11:47:13
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By Bloodrose 2015-03-11 11:47:22
Also, semi-seriously, can I call you Billy Jim-bob McDuff?
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By Asura.Alexandero 2015-03-11 11:48:05
I don't think that there is any reasonable person here that would argue against the importance of the coordination and cooperation of both branches in order to successfully pull this Iran thing off. Except you, of course. You must be under the delusional assumption that Congress has ever made any effort to actually compromise with the President, or that they had offered any kind of support since... ever.
Sorry, if I put words in your mouth. I really don't see any other way to interpret this though. I say we need the president and congress to cooperate if we are going to have a successull deal. You counter with Im under a delusional assumption that congress has ever cooperated. At this point you have put words in my mouth, I never assumed anything, I said we need them to cooperate now. I didn't say I think that they used to, that they do, or that they will. I said what I think they need to do.
I argue for their cooperation in the deal. You counter with Im delusional that they will. So either you put words in my mouth, by saying I am assuming anything about the past, or you are arguing against the need for cooperation, or I have no idea what your point was.
So, again, If I put words in your mouth, I apologize. But the only way I did that is if you first put them in mine.
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By Asura.Alexandero 2015-03-11 11:49:56
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Arrest and prosecute every last one of the 47 GOP Senators who signed that letter. They have failed to interpret our Constitution or the separation of powers. It is the President who has the authority to negotiate with foreign powers which is solely within HIS power to do so. It is his responsibility alone, and not the responsibility of Congress. Congress has to approve treaties, which this isn't. Congress also has spending power, and they can refuse to fund an agreement that the President makes, and that's where it ends. The GOP Congress' agenda is to destroy Obama and deconstruct the U.S. Constitution. They do not give a thought to what's best for this nation.
Send them a message that their days of holding this nation as hostage is over! The 47 GOP senators and Speaker Boehner, are a threat to our national security, and like any other domestic terrorist who undermines our govt, they should be treated as being armed and dangerous, and brought to justice!
You do have power to STOP them!
Google for online petition: petitions+whitehouse+gov/petition/file-charges-against-47-us-senators-violation-logan-act-attempting-undermine-nuclear-agreement/NKQnpJS9
Signature goal has been met at 100,000 but keep them coming so the W.H. will act accordingly. There were over 50,000 signatures within 18 hours or so alone. Copy and past this post and send to friends, family, coworkers, etc. to Twitter and Facebook...Spread the word folks! ... wtf
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By Asura.Alexandero 2015-03-11 11:50:53
Also, semi-seriously, can I call you Billy Jim-bob McDuff? Actually, I just go by Bill.
By Bloodrose 2015-03-11 11:54:19
I don't think that there is any reasonable person here that would argue against the importance of the coordination and cooperation of both branches in order to successfully pull this Iran thing off. Except you, of course. You must be under the delusional assumption that Congress has ever made any effort to actually compromise with the President, or that they had offered any kind of support since... ever.
Sorry, if I put words in your mouth. I really don't see any other way to interpret this though. I say we need the president and congress to cooperate if we are going to have a successull deal. You counter with Im under a delusional assumption that congress has ever cooperation. At this point you put words in my mouth, I never said anything about any assumptions, I said we need them to cooperate now. I didn't say I think that they used to, that they do, or that they will. I said what I think they need to do.
I argue for their cooperation in the deal. You counter with Im delusional that they will. So either you put words in my mouth, by saying I am assuming anything about the past, or you are arguing against the need for cooperation, or I have no idea what your point was.
So, again, If I put words in your mouth, I apologize. But the only way I did that is if you first put them in mine. All of that? Completely wrong.
Nothing of the sort about Congress *never* working with the President in the future is implied. However, my point about the delusion was they you came across as arguing that the GOP has ever had any intention of working with the president on anything. When it's been made quite clear, and quite public, as long as he is president, they will do nothing of the sort. Nor at any moment did I put words in your mouth, or twist them to mean something else - I took them at what was said, and countered with valid points in doing so.
Again, I also agreed, and stated multiple times now, that they should work together. However, in this instance the GOP is claiming that the president, who doesn't specifically need to, or have any reasonable means of coming to an agreement with a group of unreasonable congressmen and women, shouldn't be expected to kotow any longer, or try to compromise on everything, despite attempting to do so for the past 6 years.
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By Asura.Alexandero 2015-03-11 12:00:04
Ok, well I think we are in agreement and both may have read too much into what was said. I've also said numerous times now that I think both parties are/have been acting like children in this not working with each other thing. For a long time.
I don't think this Iran thing will work out well, because I don't think they are going to work together on it. I do think that, if any lasting deal with Iran can be made, that they are going to have to work together. Again, I don't see this happening in reality. But I think it is what will have to happen if we are going to get anywhere in this.
By Ramyrez 2015-03-11 12:00:28
Fenrir.Candlejack said: »Arrest and prosecute every last one of the 47 GOP Senators who signed that letter. They have failed to interpret our Constitution or the separation of powers. It is the President who has the authority to negotiate with foreign powers which is solely within HIS power to do so. It is his responsibility alone, and not the responsibility of Congress. Congress has to approve treaties, which this isn't. Congress also has spending power, and they can refuse to fund an agreement that the President makes, and that's where it ends. The GOP Congress' agenda is to destroy Obama and deconstruct the U.S. Constitution. They do not give a thought to what's best for this nation.
Send them a message that their days of holding this nation as hostage is over! The 47 GOP senators and Speaker Boehner, are a threat to our national security, and like any other domestic terrorist who undermines our govt, they should be treated as being armed and dangerous, and brought to justice!
You do have power to STOP them!
Google for online petition: petitions+whitehouse+gov/petition/file-charges-against-47-us-senators-violation-logan-act-attempting-undermine-nuclear-agreement/NKQnpJS9
Signature goal has been met at 100,000 but keep them coming so the W.H. will act accordingly. There were over 50,000 signatures within 18 hours or so alone. Copy and past this post and send to friends, family, coworkers, etc. to Twitter and Facebook...Spread the word folks! ... wtf
Smelling awfully Lordgrim up in here right now.
By Bloodrose 2015-03-11 12:01:58
Ok, well I think we are in agreement and both may have read too much into what was said. I've also said numerous times now that I think both parties are/have been acting like children in this not working with each other thing. For a long time.
I don't think this Iran thing will work out well, because I don't think they are going to work together on it. I do think that, if any lasting deal with Iran can be made, that they are going to have to work together. Again, I don't see this happening in reality. But I think it is what will have to happen if we are going to get anywhere in this. Personally, I think the return joke note about Iran becoming a mediator between the President and the GOP is more likely to happen, and I think it also be pretty entertaining.
Ridiculous - Republicans send Iran a letter that undermines and contradicts their own president. Perhaps the severest blow to American international standing since ever?
EDIT: Below is the NYT's article on the subject. I chose the NYT despite the fact that I think they went soft on the issue to try and be objective.
Quote: WASHINGTON — The fractious debate over a possible nuclear deal with Iran escalated on Monday as 47 Republican senators warned Iran about making an agreement with President Obama, and the White House accused them of undercutting foreign policy.
In a rare direct congressional intervention into diplomatic negotiations, the Republicans signed an open letter addressed to “leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran” declaring that any agreement without legislative approval could be reversed by the next president “with the stroke of a pen.”
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The letter appeared aimed at unraveling a framework agreement even as negotiators grew close to reaching it. Mr. Obama, working with leaders of five other world powers, argues that the pact would be the best way to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But critics from both parties say that such a deal would be a dangerous charade that would leave Iran with the opportunity to eventually build weapons that could be used against Israel or other foes.
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Document: Letter From Senate Republicans to the Leaders of Iran
While the possible agreement has drawn bipartisan criticism, the letter, signed only by Republicans, underscored the increasingly party-line flavor of the clash. Just last week, the Republican House speaker, John A. Boehner, gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel the platform of a joint meeting of Congress to denounce the developing deal, and Senate Republicans briefly tried to advance legislation aimed at forcing Mr. Obama to submit it to Congress, alienating Democratic allies.
The letter came as Secretary of State John Kerry’s office announced that he would return to Switzerland on Sunday in hopes of completing the framework agreement before an end-of-March deadline. Under the terms being discussed, Iran would pare back its nuclear program enough so that it would be unable to produce enough fuel for a bomb in less than a year if it tried to break out of the agreement. The pact would last at least 10 years; in exchange the world powers would lift sanctions.
Whether the Republican letter might undercut Iran’s willingness to strike a deal was not clear. Iran reacted with scorn. “In our view, this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, said in a statement. “It is very interesting that while negotiations are still in progress and while no agreement has been reached, some political pressure groups are so afraid even of the prospect of an agreement that they resort to unconventional methods, unprecedented in diplomatic history.”
A senior American official said the letter probably would not stop an agreement from being reached, but could make it harder to blame Iran if the talks fail. “The problem is if there is not an agreement, the perception of who is at fault is critically important to our ability to maintain pressure, and this type of thing would likely be used by the Iranians in that scenario,” said the official, who spoke anonymously to discuss the negotiations.
The White House and congressional Democrats expressed outrage, calling the letter an unprecedented violation of the tradition of leaving politics at the water’s edge. Republicans said that by styling it as an “open letter,” it was akin to a statement, not an overt intervention in the talks.
“It’s somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran,” Mr. Obama told reporters. “It’s an unusual coalition.”
Other Democrats were sharper. Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, called it “just the latest in an ongoing strategy, a partisan strategy, to undermine the president’s ability to conduct foreign policy.” Senator Harry M. Reid of Nevada, the Democratic minority leader, said the “Republicans are undermining our commander in chief while empowering the ayatollahs.”
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The letter, drafted by Senator Tom Cotton, a freshman from Arkansas, and signed by all but seven members of the Senate Republican majority, warned Iran that a deal with Mr. Obama might not stick. “The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen, and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time,” said the letter, whose existence was reported earlier by Bloomberg News.
Mr. Cotton said he drafted the letter because Iran’s leaders might not understand America’s constitutional system. He also said the terms of the emerging deal were dangerous because they would not be permanent and would leave Iran with nuclear infrastructure. He noted that four Republican senators who may run for president signed his letter and added that he tried without success to get Democrats to sign.
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“The only thing unprecedented is an American president negotiating a nuclear deal with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism without submitting it to Congress,” he said on CNN.
The letter revived an old debate about what role Congress should have in diplomacy.
Jim Wright, the Democratic House speaker during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, was accused of interfering when he met with opposing leaders in Nicaragua’s contra war. Three House Democrats went to Iraq in 2002 before President George W. Bush’s invasion to try to head off war. And Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, went to Syria in 2007 to meet with President Bashar al-Assad against the wishes of the Bush administration, which was trying to isolate him.
An agreement with Iran would not require immediate congressional action because Mr. Obama has the power to lift sanctions he imposed under his executive authority and to suspend others imposed by Congress. But permanently lifting those imposed by Congress, as Iran has sought, would eventually require a vote.
Rather than wait, Republicans, joined by several Democrats, drafted legislation aimed at forcing Mr. Obama to submit the agreement to Congress. But when Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican majority leader, moved to advance that legislation for a vote, Democrats who support it balked at taking action before the talks with Iran concluded. Mr. McConnell backed off, but the bill may be revived if a deal is reached.
Among the Republicans who declined to sign Mr. Cotton’s letter was Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who has been working with Democrats on Iran legislation. “We’ve got a bipartisan effort that’s underway that has a chance of being successful, and while I understand all kinds of people want to weigh in,” he said, he concluded that it would not “be helpful in that effort for me to be involved in it.”
Some Democrats, like Representative Brad Sherman of California, said the letter and other moves risked making it a party-line issue, in which case it would be impossible to muster a two-thirds vote to override a presidential veto. “The number of Democrats not willing to follow the president’s lead is reduced when it becomes a personal or political issue,” he said.
Correction: March 9, 2015
A previous version of this article misstated the given name of the senator who drafted the letter from American lawmakers to Iranian leaders. He is Tom Cotton, not Tim Cotton. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/world/asia/white-house-faults-gop-senators-letter-to-irans-leaders.html?_r=0
The Republicans first undermine their democratically elected president AND Nation by inviting a foreign leader to address them in a televised event, effectively turning the American people's house of representatives into a political brothel.
They then openly contradict the commander in chief of the nation and more or less say the US presidency is a lame duck office not worthy of taking seriously.
At best, the American political system is the greatest threat to American foreign policy.
At worst, America is so deeply entrenched in racism - made apparent by how the election of a black american has polarized the country's population - that its foreign policy be damned.
Republicans might as well have just said "Burn this house down".
I can't wait to see how the GOP goons on this forum try to deflect from the issue and/or demonstrate just how retarded their demographic is.
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